Redwood City, CA: With the promotion of Max Henry to vice president and general manager for Pacific operations, NeXT's developer partnership group was consolidated last month as part of the company's marketing department. Donna Simonides was named to head the new group as director of developer relations.

Now all three segments of NeXT's product marketing strategy; hardware, software, and third-party; will coordinate even more closely, Simonides said.

The developer partnership group manages relations with independent software vendors and other third parties. Chris MacAskill has been named to replace Simonides as the manager of the developer advocate group. The advocates serve as a liaison between developers and NeXT.